​I'm interested in early Buddhist ethics and aesthetics, pessimism and quietism in early Buddhism, and modern naturalistic and 'engaged' takes on Buddhism.

Forthcoming or in progress
  • A paper on Buddhist epistemology (especially the Open Questions and the Buddha's 'Noble Silence').
 
  • A paper on Buddhist vice theory.

  • A paper on early Buddhist misanthropy.
 
  • A paper on Buddhism and social activism.
 
  • A paper challenging claims about the compatibility of Buddhism and science.
 
  • ‘Desire in the Early Buddhist Tradition’, Alexander Gregory (ed), Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire. Due 1st July 2025.

  • 'Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression', Martin Poltrum, Michael Musalek, Helena Fox, Kathleen Galvin, Yuriko Saito (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), forthcoming.
    • ​​The 'case studies' for this chapter are Indian Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Zen, and Shinto.
 
  • Review of Byung-Chul Han, The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, Religious Studies 60.1 (2024): 189-191..*
 
Published     ​
  • ‘Going Slow’, Daily Philosophy, 11 September 2021.
    • ​Much of this paper draws on Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist ideas.
   
  • 'Reloading the Canon', The Philosopher's Magazine 93 (2021): 57-63.*
    • ​​​This article reflects on a prejudice - which I call xenophilia - which distorts people's engagements with 'non-Western' philosophies. This article has also been translated into Chinese by Wu Wanwei.
 
  • 'Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism', Journal of Value Inquiry, 52 (2018): 379–393.
    • ​​​Contains case studies of Kongzi and Lunyu and the Buddha and the Mahaparinibbana (the record of the Buddha's last days).
     
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